The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe: Or, How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped, Volumen2R. Bentley and son, 1883 |
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... Cause at that period . Correspondence concerning the despatch of the Stonewall ( Sphinx ) from Copenhagen in con- junction with the City of Richmond from London . -The Stonewall's challenge to the United States ships Niagara and ...
... Cause at that period . Correspondence concerning the despatch of the Stonewall ( Sphinx ) from Copenhagen in con- junction with the City of Richmond from London . -The Stonewall's challenge to the United States ships Niagara and ...
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... cause during the whole of the contest , and have not been moved from their political opinions , or persuaded to shrink from expressing them on all suitable occasions , by the glamour which success has cast over the opposite and ...
... cause during the whole of the contest , and have not been moved from their political opinions , or persuaded to shrink from expressing them on all suitable occasions , by the glamour which success has cast over the opposite and ...
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... causes of the war , and to fix the memory and the hearts of the people upon subjects of past history which they can dwell upon with feelings of common sympathy , the English Radical , true to his unfailing instincts , and heedless of ...
... causes of the war , and to fix the memory and the hearts of the people upon subjects of past history which they can dwell upon with feelings of common sympathy , the English Radical , true to his unfailing instincts , and heedless of ...
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... cause to fear that the declarations of Ministers would prove to be mere figures of speech , or that a judicial decision would be made inoperative by the action of a Secretary of State . However , it is now a matter of history that the ...
... cause to fear that the declarations of Ministers would prove to be mere figures of speech , or that a judicial decision would be made inoperative by the action of a Secretary of State . However , it is now a matter of history that the ...
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... causes of complaint were said to have arisen , but upon certain new rules , especially agreed upon by the contracting parties - rules which are binding upon * See Article I. , Treaty of May 8th , 1871 . no other Powers , and which ...
... causes of complaint were said to have arisen , but upon certain new rules , especially agreed upon by the contracting parties - rules which are binding upon * See Article I. , Treaty of May 8th , 1871 . no other Powers , and which ...
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Página 409 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Página 307 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 383 - Her Majesty's Government, in order to evince its desire of strengthening the friendly relations between the two countries, and of making satisfactory provision for the future...
Página 358 - South; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made,— what is more than either,— they have made a nation.
Página 307 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes...
Página 388 - Alabama claims. And whereas Her Britannic Majesty has authorized her High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries to express in a friendly spirit the regret felt by Her Majesty's Government for the escape, under whatever circumstances, of the Alabama and other vessels from British ports, and for the depredations committed by those vessels.
Página 293 - It is erroneous, so far as foreign nations are concerned, to suppose that any war exists in the United States. Certainly there cannot be two belligerent powers where there is no war. There is here, as there has always been, one political power, namely, the United States of America, competent to make war and peace, and conduct commerce and alliances with all foreign nations.
Página 277 - ... whether on the high seas or elsewhere, no foreign power has the right to obtain the exhibition of them. Therefore the colonial council has unanimously concluded that the word of the commanding officer was sufficient. In the second place, the vessel armed for war by private persons is called "privateer.
Página 291 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Página 330 - They cannot admit that they may have acted with bad faith in maintaining the neutrality they professed. The law officers of the Crown must be held to be better interpreters of a British statute than any foreign Government can be presumed to be. Her Majesty's Government must therefore decline either to make reparation and compensation for the captures made by the ' Alabama,' or to refer the question to any foreign state.